On the news this morning was a surveillance video of a Kentucky off-duty cop in an elevator with his wife. Not sure why it was out of the holster, but in the process of re-holstering his sidearm, he managed to shoot himself. It's hard to tell in the video, but he must have had his finger on the trigger to cause the discharge..... don't they get trained any better than that?
A real "Gun Guy"
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Pat-inCO
Hawkeye
I see you missed the video from a few years back of the "instructor" telling
the class (of officers) that HE was the only one in the room smart enough
to carry thus and such, and them having an ND in the classroom.
Doesn't matter what portion of gun carrying people you look at, there is an
idiot in every group. It may be from inattention, carelessness or just stupidity
but they manage to screw something up, no matter how much you train them. :roll:
a.k.a. You can't fix stupid.
P.S. As to it being an officer, this is the carryover of liberal hiring policies. :evil:
the class (of officers) that HE was the only one in the room smart enough
to carry thus and such, and them having an ND in the classroom.
Doesn't matter what portion of gun carrying people you look at, there is an
idiot in every group. It may be from inattention, carelessness or just stupidity
but they manage to screw something up, no matter how much you train them. :roll:
a.k.a. You can't fix stupid.
P.S. As to it being an officer, this is the carryover of liberal hiring policies. :evil:
DA_TriggR4Ruger
Hunter
have seen it ALL too often over all these years, from Boy Scout camp back in the 50's, to about any gun range , as well as at MANY gun shows..."stupid is as stupid does" F. Gump
bogus bill
Hunter
Too bad there was no audio and we dont know the circumstances of why he even touched the gun. Were I to judge just by what we seen on the video, I would believe he was trying to "Impress" the woman, "I yam a kop" an dis here gun is poking me and I got`s ta readjust it."
Too many times I have seen newbys get a little training and now THEY claim to be a "expert".
That old video of the DOJ guy showing a class of kids his gun and saying, "I yam the onlyest qualified person in dis here room wiff a glock and then shooting himself in the foot with it was a real classic! Then since it was aired and he felt he was made a fool of, he was sueing the DOJ for hurting his dignity! Wonder how that turned out?
Too many times I have seen newbys get a little training and now THEY claim to be a "expert".
That old video of the DOJ guy showing a class of kids his gun and saying, "I yam the onlyest qualified person in dis here room wiff a glock and then shooting himself in the foot with it was a real classic! Then since it was aired and he felt he was made a fool of, he was sueing the DOJ for hurting his dignity! Wonder how that turned out?
Colonialgirl
Hawkeye
AHHH, the JOYS of owning a GLOCK ???
Colonialgirl said:
I would be on that myself. 10 to 1 it's a glock and a finger was on the trigger.
Noc-Buster
Bearcat
WOW! Thats too bad, could have been worse LOL!
coach
Hunter
I can't figure why he took it out. No doubt all the one hand fumbling to reholster it ended up somehow pressing the trigger. I looked like a glock to me too.
bogus bill
Hunter
I didn't see anywhere the fact that the woman was his wife. That`s why I assumed he was trying to impress the lady. Maybe the gun was poking him for real then. Whatever, he wasn't that adapt with it was he? I have been around at least three AD`s that I can recall but never had one myself. I am not smug enough to claim I couldnt be in one, I just have been lucky. Sometime`s familiarity breeds contempt? I carried on my humble job for 35 years. Once I was dead tired and going to unholster my revolver in the ready room. About 7 of us were present in the tight quarters and I COCKED my gun in the holster, woke up and caught myself, went outside to spit out my chaw and corrected the matter. I walked back in and no one noticed. I never could explain that except in my young years I was brought up with a ruger single six that I shot a lot. I had a instructor once that told me about spotting a officer on the range with a cocked revolver in his holster. He told him not to move a muscle, went over and uncocked it for him. Stuff happens. Lots of times it happens to very tired experienced people.
It`s just that many of us wont admit to it.
Once I and a friend went into a gun shop and I bought a set of I think, herritt shooting star grips for my model 60 smith. Since we were near his house we went over there to put them on. I unloaded my gun right in front of him, he picked it up, dry fired it at a rug tacked to the wall with a elk on it. He got me a screwdriver and I changed the grips. I reloaded it right across the table from him looking at him right in the eyes as we were BSing. Shortly, he picked it up, shot the rug before I could holler HEY! He swore at me, why you rotten ----! He thought I had tricked him! Besides being a cop this was also a gun nut!
It`s just that many of us wont admit to it.
Once I and a friend went into a gun shop and I bought a set of I think, herritt shooting star grips for my model 60 smith. Since we were near his house we went over there to put them on. I unloaded my gun right in front of him, he picked it up, dry fired it at a rug tacked to the wall with a elk on it. He got me a screwdriver and I changed the grips. I reloaded it right across the table from him looking at him right in the eyes as we were BSing. Shortly, he picked it up, shot the rug before I could holler HEY! He swore at me, why you rotten ----! He thought I had tricked him! Besides being a cop this was also a gun nut!
muzzleloader
Single-Sixer
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One of my chief complaints about gun free zones. Unneeded removal of gun from holster, unattended storage of same, then reholstering of same, often while confined in a car. This cop flunked on two of those for no other reason than discomfort. 
mohavesam
Hawkeye
Remember this: Every single one of those ND "victims" were absolutely, 100% confident in their abilities and training, that they could NEVER accidentally fire their gun.
"How sure are you?" is the question.
As they say up the road in Paulden: "If it is loaded, it can fire." And every gun is always loaded.
"How sure are you?" is the question.
As they say up the road in Paulden: "If it is loaded, it can fire." And every gun is always loaded.
one bullet
Single-Sixer
Not to debate it but it looks like an XD to me instead of Glock.
